The street of the poet
By: Tania Baban ; poem by Jim Natal
Contributors: Natal, Jim, author; Conflux Press; Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition; Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Artists' Books Collection (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: Conflux Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Marina del Rey, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 12
Subjects: History; Violence; Pictorial works; Booksellers and bookselling; Bombings; Iraq War, 2003-2011; Protest movements; Books and reading in art; Intellectual life; Social conditions; Censorship; Terrorism in art; In art; War and civilization; Vehicle bombs; Visual literature; Specimens; Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition
Notes: "Box & book hard-bound, covered in black speckled Japanese book cloth. Handmade rolled-leather clasp, gold painted. Gold Arabic letters hand-painted, cut out and applied on the pages to look like embossing. Pages: Stonehenge paper. Inside book covers: black silver & gold decorative marble papers. End sheets Lokta paper. Decorative, marble paper: red, black & gold applied in the shape of waves. Font is Humanist. Iridescent & gold ink hand-applied throughout. Book is 8-holes, sewn with almost invisible Irish linen."--Sheet [2].

"My book, 'The street of the poet', based on a poem by Jim Natal, is influenced and inspired by Islamic illuminated manuscripts and codices. I wanted my artist book to reflect those elaborately illuminated folios and to make a connection to the manuscripts destroyed in th 12th century sacking of Baghdad by the Mongols, when the books of the Grand Library were burned and tossed into the Rigris River. But I also wanted to tie it forward to the 2007 car bombing of Al-Mutanabbi Street, Baghdad's street of the booksellers."--Sheet [2].

Accompanied by envelope containing two sheets: sheet [1] has 'The street of poet' poem by Jim Natal printed on it and is signed by the author ; sheet [2] contains a description of the book and its making by Tania Baban.

Artist's book.

Issued in a box.

Gift; Beau Beausoleil; 2019-2020.